When will the truce between the United States and Iran end?

The declared truce between the United States and Iran is entering a decisive phase as its end approaches, amid reports of a new round of negotiations in Islamabad.

On April 8 of this month, the United States and Iran agreed to a conditional two-week ceasefire, during which maritime traffic is allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

This agreement came more than a month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran, and only hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that “an entire civilization would perish tonight” if Iran did not reopen the strait.

Accordingly, the truce is set to expire next Wednesday, April 22.

Two days before the truce’s end, President Donald Trump said on Sunday that U.S. officials would travel on Monday to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to continue negotiations with Iran, while simultaneously threatening to destroy Iranian infrastructure and power plants if Tehran failed to meet his conditions.

The first round of negotiations between Iran and the United States, held last weekend in Islamabad, ended without tangible results on the main points of contention, which primarily concern Iran’s nuclear and missile ambitions as well as navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

On Sunday, three American and regional diplomatic sources told the newspaper Israel Hayom that “Iran has agreed to hand over its entire stockpile of enriched uranium.”

The newspaper quoted three U.S. diplomats in the region as saying that Iran had agreed to surrender all of its enriched uranium, but it remains unclear who would receive the materials. The possible recipients include Russia, which has already expressed readiness to do so, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which would need to find a storage location and manage the materials, or the United States itself.

The Americans are demanding to participate in the process of identifying the location of the enriched uranium, but Iran has not yet agreed to this request; however, it is reportedly willing to allow IAEA personnel to do so, according to the three sources.

The newspaper added: “This progress in communications between the Americans and Iran in recent weeks is the source of the optimism expressed by President Trump, but some fundamental differences still remain.”

According to the same sources, the remaining disagreements include:

First: the missile program.

Second: the issue of support for regional organizations.

Third: frozen Iranian assets.

Fourth: the Strait of Hormuz.